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does anyone remember Pascal’s series Caitlin?
You put that question in there just for me, I know it.
OF COURSE I DID.
DUDE! I have got to read this.
I don’t remember Caitlin, but I was totally into BSC and SVH. And anything by Christopher Pike. I think I need to reread.
I actually found the Caitlin trilogy on Alibris a few years back and passed it around to some friends so we could all re-read and laugh.
And honestly, as far as chick lit-beach books for high school girls go, it’s not bad. She had a great editor – it still sounds exactly like her, but it is grammatically correct.
You know I’m going to read this now, right? Like, I just have to. What have you done to me, Stoney?
Mel! OF COURSE you’re going to read it. *cough* go to my lj.
Go read it, then come back here and let’s talk college age girl smut. WHEE!
“OK, can we talk about how awesome it is for there to finally be a book for us girls where the heroine is all chubs and loves that she’s chubs? And the frenemies are the worst because they’re so into being skinny that it makes them mean because they’re just hungry? I so love that, I’m not kidding. Like, I’m super serious, you guys.”
I love that, too. I haven’t read the book yet but yeah, I love that. I’ve never been skinny but kinda embraced my Snooki body type when I was in college and once I did? Yay. (didn’t last but we’ll talk about that when we lunch!)
“And honestly, as far as chick lit-beach books for high school girls go, it’s not bad. She had a great editor – it still sounds exactly like her, but it is grammatically correct.”
It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Snooki actually knows grammar. I knew a lot of people like her growing up whose public personae was ditzy and party girl, but Italian families push education and literacy on their girls. (It’s ok if the boys don’t use proper grammar, as long as they have muscles.) But the girls have to know when to show ‘em, and when to hold ‘em. (err. that’s what she said).
My daughter is 13 and all of the YA books have these wisplet girls that have perfect hair, bodies, etc. My daughter is almost 6′ tall, so there is no identification happening, right?
I just adore that there’s a lead character in a book that gets razzed for being herself, and then ultimately she’s the best BECAUSE she’s herself. And the only people who give her shit are the skinny bitches (and let’s be real, that’s how it is in life.) Her size does NOT affect her love life at all, and that’s how it is in real life, too. Well, when you’re comfortable in your own skin. SO that’s the biggest plus of the book, imo, and something more girls should be exposed to.
I read some interviews with the ghost writer, a pro romance novelist, so she definitely got help with pacing and stuff that fits the romance formula. But the characters and overall story and – of course – the dialog? All Snooks. Which is what makes it a fun read, it’s totally chatty and hilarious.
sort of off topic – if i may recommend a book for your daughter? [I'm the 1st reader for my entire family - it's how i was stuck reading a certain sparkly series, that cost me WAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much money, because i kept literally destroying copies...]
if you like, or at least don’t MIND, Urban Fantasy – Kelly Armstrong has a trilogy [and is starting a second, related to the first, but a different cast, just set in the same world] The Summoning, The Awakening, and a third who’s title is escaping me – they follow a 14 year old girl, who starts in an arts magnet school, wanting to be a director when she grows up – and then she sees a ghost.
except she REALLY sees a ghost, and gets sent to a “mental health group home” where EVERYONE [the kids, i mean] are something “supernatural” – a werewolf, a witch, a girl who can summon fire – lots of cool kids, really GOOD plot, the main character is like a REAL girl, except she’s also a necromancer. she kisses a boy, one time? or twice – and there’s the obligatory love triangle [seriously, what IS it with YA a love triangles] but it’s AWESOME.
first YA i’ve read since i was 12 or so myself – i read them originally because i’m addicted to her adult series [in the same universe] but read all of them for their awesomeness. :)
it never crosses the “line” – and this is a 14 year old protagonist who ACTS 14, and is unsure and get acne and has bad hair sometimes and etc. she’s pretty awesome; almost everyone [aside from the evil adults - BUT! not all, or even MOST, adults are evil - it's made perfectly clear that the evil adults are an anomoly, ya know? it's not just adult-bashing, and the good adults REALLY make up for the bad ones, when they can.] acts like REAL PEOPLE – a quality sadly lacking in a lot of YA.
ok, seranade over…